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There are roughly 170 more casks to be returned to Germany for storage. The agreement also provides for reprocessing to end in 2005. Between now and then, officials say, another 500 casks will be sent for reprocessing either to France or to Britain's Sellafield nuclear facility. "However hard it may be," said German Environment Minister Jürgen Trittin, a prominent member of the Green Party, "we have to deal with the waste that Germany's nuclear-energy policy produced...
...nuclear radiation have been exhaustively studied, especially among survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yet researchers had never confirmed that the children of exposed men could be affected. Earlier this year, researchers in England reported that such transmission may in fact be possible. Children of male workers at the Sellafield nuclear power plant were up to eight times as likely to be stricken by leukemia as children whose fathers did not work at the plant. The researchers theorized that cumulative low-level doses of radiation during the six months before conception may have triggered the damage...
...They are too dangerous, potentially, to build near populated places, and they require a larger supply of water than was readily available in Britain. So Britain's reactors were air-cooled, with radia-torlike cooling fins around the uranium rods. There are two reactors, side by side, near Sellafield in Cumberland. Rows of great fans like outsized airplane propellers blow gales of filtered wind through holes around the uranium. After another filtering to catch radioactive dust, the hot air is discharged through two massive stacks 400 feet high...
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